favorablea.[F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See Favor, n.]1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.()Lend favorable ears to our request. (Shak.)Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. (Ps. lxxxv. 1.)2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.()A place very favorable for the making levies of men. (Clarendon.)The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. (Sir W. Temple.)3. Beautiful; well-favored.(Spenser.)()The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty. (Burke.)